Update: 79 dead in Iraq violence Saturday

[antiimperialist]

36 killed by car bombs in Hurriya, Baghdad
2 killed by car bomb in Mansour district of Baghdad.
1 killed by car bomb in Saidiya district of Baghdad
36 killed by car bomb in Kufa (near Najaf) car bomb.
4 bodies were found shot and tortured in Mahmudiya.

link

[citizen snips]

1. Bombings kill at least 68 in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombings killed at least 68 people in Iraq on Saturday, including one planted on a minibus that exploded in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad.

The attacks came hours after Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad for ordering the killings of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail in 1982. Despite concerns about a spike in unrest, Saturday's violence was not unusually high and there was no indication it was related to the execution.

The U.S. military also announced the deaths of three Marines and three soldiers, making December the year's deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq, with 109 service members killed.

The bombing at the fish market in Kufa, a Shiite town about 100 miles south of the Iraqi capital, killed 31 people and wounded 58, said Issa Mohammed, director of the morgue in the neighboring town of Najaf. The man blamed for parking the vehicle was cornered and killed by a mob as he walked away from the explosion, police and witnesses said.

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Jiyah]

2. Since saddam's execution, from news sources I've seen

7 us soldiers have been killed, 5 wounded.

83 Iraqis have been killed, 143 wounded.

way to make a dead martyr, chimpy! good work, as usual!

[Drum]

3. ...while the malingerer-in-Chief cowers in a tornado-proof van....nt